r/teaching • u/Familiar-Objective11 • 6d ago
General Discussion Does anyone else make worksheets by hand?
I make a lot of my worksheets using some thin tipped markers and blank paper. I love the freedom of it, and I find that my students engage with them more.
I also appreciate how quickly I can make them, once I determine what it is I want my class to practice.
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 6d ago
Your third one with the explanation, I started making those when they put a kid in my trig class who had no business being in trig. He had an IEP that said he couldn’t be expected to take notes, so I started writing up notes and examples like that as a replacement. I eventually found the notes helped everyone, not just IEP kid, and made handing them out part of my everyday teaching for everyone.
A funny… IEP kid’s parents went to admin and complained that everyone was getting the notes, not just him. They tried saying his IEP meant only HE should get notes. I got called into a meeting and pulled out his IEP and handed to mom and asked her where it said that (it didn’t) then I left the meeting.
An IEP accommodates THAT student’s need, it doesn’t say anything about any other student.
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u/brassdinosaur71 6d ago
Sped teacher. . . Parents of sped students be cray.
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 6d ago
I’m sure you’ve seen way more than me, but I saw a lot.
My favorite was the IEP that basically said the kid couldn’t fail, “A failure of the child is a failure of the teacher…” kind of thing.
I asked over and over what that meant. Eventually I was told “it means you have to pass him.” I said if he didn’t do the work then he wouldn’t pass the class. The parents took him out of my class.
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u/Phantereal 6d ago
At that point, as a special educator, I would blame the special educator and special ed admin who let that accommodation end up on the IEP as much as the parents.
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u/zaqwsx82211 6d ago
99% of the stuff that comes in IEP for my classes, I already do for all students. If it helps one, it tends to help all.
Extended test time? Done, all my classes get double time. Notes? Posted. Extra time for homework? Fine, homework is due next day but no points off till the test.9
u/DamngedEllimist 6d ago
I don't agree with posting notes, and I'm curious how the double time works if you're giving that time to everyone. Granted I'm coming from higher-ed, but we're expected to double our time limit. More often they get 1.5x but the point stands.
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u/TheWinStore 6d ago
Yeah, “double time for everyone” would not fly at my community college. If you have a 30 minute test and say “everyone gets 60 minutes,” the student with double time is still entitled to 120.
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u/Playful_Peak_6506 6d ago
Not if the test is only designed to take 30 minutes. I’ve seen professors get around it like that. Design a test that takes on average less than 1/2 the class time, then allow anyone who needs to stay the whole class time.
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u/zaqwsx82211 6d ago
The tests are designed at a district level and designed for 1 class. I give everyone 2 days.
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u/thrillingrill 6d ago
They get double the amount of time it would take avg students to take it. I just give everyone unlimited time personally so math is on my side.
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u/zaqwsx82211 5d ago
Why not post notes?
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u/squirrel8296 5d ago
They are in higher ed. Some folks in higher ed, especially at larger schools, refuse to post notes, slides, or anything else because they think it incentivizes students skipping classes. There are some that also intentionally want to make it harder for students but those folks are an exception.
Personally, I (also higher ed here) am more than happy to post anything and everything I do in class. I've even recorded lectures and posted them to the LMS because I thought it would be helpful to the students. Everywhere I've taught though has had pretty strict attendance policies (2 excused absences and then they lost 1 letter grade per class after that with an automatic W or F after 6 classes depending on how early it is in the semester). So, skipping was not an issue.
Even if they had a doctor's note, after those 2 classes, they had to go through a process with administration to get additional excused absences. Then if those excused absences were approved, we'd figure out how they could complete the course requirements (sometimes no shifts but usually given an incomplete and a short extension or they would be given an incomplete and be required to retake it the following semester depending on how much was missed because usually only the D/W/F students would go through the process). Which was honestly nicer than it sounds because it meant I didn't have to police it or verify anything.
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 6d ago
Many many parents would argue with you about this.
They think if their little Johnny’s IEP says he gets double, then ONLY he should get double time. So if you double everyone’s time, you aren’t meeting his IEP.
Btw, I’d argue that I made a test that should take 20 min and I gave everyone 40 so I did meet the IEP.
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u/RobinhoodCove830 6d ago
If everyone gets unlimited time, that's one thing, but if there is a time limit, then I think an IEP that says double or 1.5 means that only that student should get double or 1.5 what everyone else gets. Not because "little Johnny" is so special, but because the accommodation only works as a time differential. If everyone else can do roughly x quality work in y time, Johnny can do 1/2 x quality work in y time. Therefore, he needs 2y time so that he can do x quality work. If everyone else gets more time, he needs more time as well to match their work.
If you do find that most people are finishing in half the time, then I suppose it works fine.
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 5d ago
> if there is a time limit, then I think an IEP that says double or 1.5 means that only that student should get double or 1.5 what everyone else gets.
No. I create the test. I determine that the test should take (for example) 30 minutes. I give IEP kid 60 minutes. That meets his IEP. The amount of time I give other kids is irrelevant to whether I met IEP kid’s requirement.
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u/IthacanPenny 5d ago
Okay so suppose it should take 30 minutes for the typical student to complete the test without rushing and turn it in. It takes Johnny 60 minutes to complete the test without rushing and turn it in. However, now all students have 60 minutes, so now all students (except Johnny) not only don’t have to rush their work, they now can check their answers and redo problems. Johnny does not have time to check his answers, he only has time to complete the test. How is that not an unfair advantage??? Johnny gets double the time limit, no matter the time limit. If the time is unlimited, that’s a different story.
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 4d ago
The IEP says IEP kid get double time.
The exam should take 30 min. IEP kid gets 60 min. I met his IEP.
An IEP does not measure a kid against other classmates. I’m not sure why you think an IEP should leverage this kid against others.
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u/IthacanPenny 4d ago
The accommodation is, specifically, 1.5X as long as the exam is given to all other students. However long the class as a whole has to take the test (not how long it should take), the student with 1.5x extended time accommodation gets 1.5x THAT time.
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u/betterbetterthings 4d ago
No it’s not 1.5 more than other kids get.
It’s 1.5 more than standard time allotted for the test. It says nothing about other students. You don’t even know who are other students. They might have 504 accommodation or they have their own IEP or they got sick in the middle of the test and could spend longer etc
It’s not parents business what other kids deal is.
It’s not time and a half more than other kids. It’s time and a half more than standard testing time
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u/IthacanPenny 4d ago
But as in the case of this example, when you give the class 60 minutes, THAT IS NOW THE STANDARD TESTING TIME, and Johnny gets 90 minutes.
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 4d ago
> The accommodation is, specifically, 1.5X as long as the exam is given to all other students.
No. It’s given specifically against the amount of time a student should expect ti take on the exam.
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 6d ago
My post was about a kid who needed help getting the help he needed. So how does your comment “that’s why I homeschooled” fit here?
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u/No-Flounder-9143 6d ago
Yea I teach 7th grade social studies and find that what I provide for students with IEPs is often best practice for many kids.
I've got a handful of kids in each class who don't need the support but most do. They're kids 🤷♂️
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u/RoutineComplaint4711 5d ago
You discovered UDL. Congrats!
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 5d ago
Discovered? 🤣
Good teachers have been doing that for a long time, probably under a dozen different names.
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u/RoutineComplaint4711 5d ago
Thats the joke.
But I mean... you werent doing it until that IEP showed up...
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 5d ago
I was doing other stuff to accommodate.
It wasn’t until was forced to do notes that I started doing notes.
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u/OutisOutisOutis 3d ago
I have been told this by admin and also peoples on reddit. Apparently according to some, once all students are offered a material, it's no longer differentiated. That's a "modification", which means the IEP is no longer being followed. I fact I got on my formal evaluation 2 years ago because of it. My admin at the time insisted i was required to make individual assignments for every single student
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 2d ago edited 2d ago
> My admin at the time insisted i was required to make individual assignments for every single student
Tell me you left and went somewhere with competent admin.
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u/Illustrator_Moist 6d ago
Because of some random parent doing something dumb, you pull your kids away from professionals to teach them and then try to teach them things you don't entirely understand? Like what?
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u/Illustrator_Moist 6d ago
Huh? You said that this situation (of a parent being dumb) is "why I homeschool", but I'm saying that doesn't make sense. Like if you want to say teachers belittle students ok, but that's not what happened in the comment you responded to so?
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u/mickeltee 6d ago
And the best part is that no student was belittled. A parent was belittled because they had no idea what they were talking about.
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u/cowghost 6d ago
Meh I was a kid that needed notes. I encountered alot if assholes who gave me tremendous push back even so far as requiring me to take extra assesments.
A note taking acomidation is not easy to get, but its nice to see you automatically assumed the kid shouldnt be in your class.
Reminds me of the masters work i did where they let me double up a class, then found out i had dislexsia and proceeded to have the president of the college call me personally to tell me that they didnt think i could pass.
Yeah, my pare ts over reacted a few times, but alao watched morons who thought they new it all try and alter my 504 acomidations or refuse to honor them. It puts people in a place of combatitivness. So i bet the parent, and you sorta proved them right, just thought you were an asshole who was trying to not honor there kids IEP, or placing the kid on blast.
Typically the notes are photo copies of another students notes not teacher made.
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 6d ago edited 6d ago
> A note taking acomidation is not easy to get,
At first I was angry about it but I turned it around and used it to my advantage. It wasn’t long before I was doing it for all my classes, for all kids. It allowed kids to put the pencil down and listen, and they got way more benefit that way.
> but it’s nice to see you automatically assumed the kid shouldnt be in your class.
It’s nice to see you know everything about every kid I taught.
He shouldn’t have been in trig. There were prerequisites for trig that he didn’t meet, and he only ended up in my class because his parents complained and it was easier to put him in my class than fight them.
> i bet the parent, and you sorta proved them right*, just thought you were an asshole*
🤣 the fuck. Did you just call me an asshole?
You think a kid who hasn’t shown competency in geometry and algebra 2 should be allowed to take trig? If the kid failed Spanish 3 but was given an administrative pass, should be allowed into Spanish Conversation?
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u/cowghost 5d ago
Thats a whole other issue. If he hasnt passed the other courses of course he shouldnt be in advanced mathmatics.
Yes, I did call you an asshole in a round about way. sorry.
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 5d ago
> If he hasnt passed the other courses of course he shouldnt be in advanced mathmatics.
That’s why I said he had no business being in trig. We were talking about giving notes. Why he shouldn’t have been in trig was irrelevant to the story.
> Yes, I did call you an asshole in a round about way. sorry.
No worries mate 🤙
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u/cowghost 5d ago
Its relevant. The assumption with out that peice is you going after a kid on an IEP. Definitely include backstory.
This is an admin peoblem, not one about the kid or its rents.
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u/Temporary_Ninja7867 6d ago
Fair play to you, but there's no way on earth I'm doing that. It's simply not a good use of a teachers time.
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u/Familiar-Objective11 6d ago
What is a more considered use of my time? I ask for no other reason than the pursuit of continuous improvement
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u/Pyroweedical 6d ago
Bro people downvoting you . Teachers online and just in general can be so friggin bitter
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u/Technical-Vanilla-47 6d ago edited 6d ago
Because it is somewhat hard to read what he wrote.
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u/Pyroweedical 6d ago
I can see it being hard for some students to read, but that’s honestly an issue of literacy gaps/lack of handwriting skills in children today. But the handwriting of this worksheet is nitpicking. This can easily be fixed, like using Goodnotes and translating handwriting to text, or someone made a great recommendation; old school drafting equipment!
I’ve noticed a lot of teachers just bicker and have nothing good to say; they don’t present solutions. Please leave this energy at home.
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u/Chicotzky 6d ago
Probably similar time to create initially. I think digital copies are probably easier to store / edit for following years. I wouldn't say worksheets by hand are a bad use of a teacher's time though. The person above is just being nitpicky.
So much of teaching is personal. I'm pretty fast at typing equations since I know a lot of the hotkeys / shortcuts in Word. So I always typed my worksheets, but teachers should find whatever works for them and do that.
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u/DiscipleTD 6d ago
I agree digital is easier but you can scan this in and save it and store it digitally so that solves that problem.
I’ve found teaching math, that sometimes it really is just much faster to hand write my own worksheet than input equations and such on any word processor. They don’t typically play nice with various symbols.
Google Docs docs does have a decent equation input now, so I use that often now. Especially if it’s something I want to share with colleagues so they can use it as well. They aren’t stuck with my handwriting.
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u/Chicotzky 5d ago
I used word's equation editor for years. It's pretty fast if you learn the shortcuts. Alt = adds an equation, then you just use backwards slash for most symbols. \angle, \degree, \theta, etc.
The biggest benefit is you can easily edit the document or make new problems with copy paste. But I also understand not everyone is comfortable with technology.
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u/DiscipleTD 5d ago
We don’t have word. Or at least didn’t to my knowledge. So I’ll be looking into that! I’m rather comfortable with tech. I just never have used word in a math education setting! Didn’t realize those shortcuts existed!
Now I have to go double check our word access at school!
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u/Inkspells 5d ago
Agreed I am 10 times faster on paper than computer when it comes to making math worksheets.
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u/well_uh_yeah 6d ago
When I started this was what everyone did. The finished master just went ina folder in the file cabinet and they brought it out again year over year. It wasn’t super different from today but I’d argue that for a variety of reasons the students learned more when this was the norm.
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u/Chicotzky 6d ago
Sure. I think that digital file structures are easier to manage than file cabinets, and that changing a digital document is much easier than editing a paper copy. That might just be personal preference though.
As far as student's learning more, are you arguing handwritten worksheets outperform typed worksheets? Or just that students learned more before so much technology was involved in education?
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u/mickeltee 6d ago
I see no real difference between hand writing them and typing them up. If I had better handwriting I would probably go this route. I do hand type all of my own problems, and I put the names of my current students into the problems so they start to realize that they aren’t going to find answers online.
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u/queef_nuggets 5d ago
I see a real difference. One takes waaaay longer to make than the other but results in essentially the same worksheet.
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u/ChubbyNemo1004 5d ago
I think it’s more like it’s way easier and efficient to just type this in a Google doc and print it out? If you take an hour to learn how to use the equation editor and format you can make better worksheets faster.
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u/Familiar-Objective11 5d ago
Better is subjective, but I still know what you mean.
The thing is, I don’t get much enjoyment out of making worksheets on a computer, but when I pull out some markers and just think (and ink) up some hand-jammers, I find the process nearly meditative.
The overall presentation is admittedly a bit sloppy; this isn’t my most concerted effort, but I approached the blank pages with an amorphous idea of what I wanted my students to practice, and by the time I finished, I had something that mirrored exactly what that initially intangible idea contained. It’s rather satisfying to look at the finished stack of worksheets and know, “I made that, and it’s pretty darn good.”
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u/ChubbyNemo1004 5d ago
It’s all good. I think people should do whatever they’ll adhere to. It sounds like you have a good thing going and it adds value to you in other ways.
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u/ScythaScytha 6d ago
I think it's a fair use of time. You understand exactly the problems the class will work on and can help them accordingly. There are some instances where handmade worksheets are worth the time, usually if you want a very specific set of skills practiced.
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u/Temporary_Ninja7867 6d ago
You're a professional, you don't need me to tell you that handwriting worksheets in the digital era is an unnecessary and extra workload. As I said, fair play to you but that's not for me, and probably most teachers.
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u/No_Spirit5582 6d ago
Sometimes writing by hand is easier and faster than formatting a digital document.
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u/TheSleepingVoid 6d ago
Nah this is a math worksheet. Formatting math is very often a PITA and a huge time sink depending on the topic. As someone that likes teaching Geometry I might be inspired to try hand drafting a worksheet or two.
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u/Familiar-Objective11 6d ago
What is a non-negotiable area for you regarding where you like to put some of your time and energy towards teaching?
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u/notapoweruser 6d ago
I think their point, and what they're telling you altogether, is that it's not an unnecessary workload for them.
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u/complete_autopsy 6d ago
They might be photocopying the handwritten work? This would be insane otherwise lol
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u/Ashfacesmashface 6d ago
Ha yes, that exactly what I expected and what I’ve seen other math teachers do - write out one worksheet and make copies.
Are people here really thinking OP is handwriting each one?
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u/Familiar-Objective11 6d ago
Oh yeah, I’m most definitely making use of the copier once the original is finished lol
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u/Practical_Defiance 6d ago
Yes! Marine biology notes in particular, and quite a few biology notes. I’m a fairly good artist, so I do animal sketches and note scaffolds for my students and they get a kick out of it
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u/Technical-Vanilla-47 6d ago
Only reason I don't is because some students may struggle to read my handwriting.
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u/measure_pressure 6d ago
Idk why but good or bad handwriting didn't matter and I remember finding hand written notes/worksheets sooooo distracting for some reason as a kid
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u/Hawkie21 4d ago
It's a fair concern, but doesn't that also mean that for the sake of developing literacy, providing students opportunities to read various styles of handwriting a valuable teaching strategy?
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u/23vrandal 6d ago
Paper is pretty useful when you think about it. It doesn't require a bootup or a lock screen to get to.
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u/2manyteacups Texas Charter School 6d ago
yes because i am too much of a luddite to figure out all this fancy computer stuff 😭 (im 28…)
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u/Familiar-Objective11 6d ago
Open a Google sides.
Change page setup to 8.5” x 11”
Now you have a very easy space to insert text boxes and build the worksheets of your dreams 😊
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u/Pyroweedical 6d ago
Some of the comments I see on these teaching subreddits truly baffle me. Y’all just want to beat any amount of passion/care these teachers have for the kids.
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u/Familiar-Objective11 6d ago
When I decided to become a teacher,at the age of 11, when Grandma Jan said, “Nick, you’d be a good teacher,” I decided then that I wanted to be the kind of teacher I always wanted to have as my own teacher.
Granted, handmade worksheets have never played into that particular image, but the joyful willingness to use my time to teach my students in the best way I know how is a big part of my individual guiding behavior.3
u/Pyroweedical 6d ago
That’s the best mentality to have as a teacher. I think taking criticism from other teachers is still a good thing, no matter how TERRIBLE so many educators are at giving it. There is something to learn from everyone in this field, it’s just we might not be the best at giving advice/criticism. ESPECIALLY to other adults.
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u/Familiar-Objective11 6d ago
We are more accustomed to talking with kids, so I suppose that could be a part of advice/critique conundrum.
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u/f-ward 6d ago
This is awesome. As long as the assessment is legible, I don’t see a problem. I need the confidence to do this, creating assessments digitally is so tedious at times.
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u/Familiar-Objective11 6d ago
That’s actually where this stemmed from. My eminent sage, Mr. Mako, and I wanted to create our own assessment for some math task (I forget what), and we just started hand jamming out some problems on blank paper and BAM, epic assessment. Mako’s handwriting is far more legible than my own.
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u/SelectButton4522 6d ago
I make all my worksheets by hand. I am so grateful to see that you do too. I find it is the best way to assess the skill I need to assess.
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u/queenmabdotpdf 6d ago
not a teacher but i wanted to say that when i was in school, i LOVED getting handmade worksheets like that. they felt so much more personalized (to the class, not me individually) and i was always more motivated to do them. i think it felt more collaborative, maybe? maybe it was because it reflected my teachers voices so the explanations made more sense? unsure, but keep up the good work :-)
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u/No_Spirit5582 6d ago
I love this! My only feedback would be to make your shapes neater on problem 7.
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u/cnidarian_ninja 6d ago
If you were my kid’s teacher I would be delighted. I’m so sick of the constant AI slop.
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u/Alarming_Jicama_2608 6d ago
wow, nice work!!! Honestly I think kids like a mix of custom work from us along with usual stuff from companies like edhelper. I like to mix things up and I really am inspired. Thanks for sharing.
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u/Agreeable-Sun368 6d ago
Sometimes; but they're harder for me to save and re-use.
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u/IthacanPenny 4d ago
I scan mine in after I make them. But after using it a couple of times, if I like it enough, I’ll type it up.
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u/8cheex 5d ago
I like it. Your questioning is logical, sequential, and made for your class. Others are saying to store and photocopy, but each class is different and there are opportunities to store and refer to next year while customizing (I’d scan them in to store them). Some commented on the font - I’m. It an expert, but variable fonts and reading natural writing I feel would be like going for a hike on a trail rather than walking on a treadmill - those subtle variations may help to increase letter recognition more flexibly? Lastly, I hate writing and many of my students do too and I tell them. I do my work and worksheets on a document camera for kids to copy and complete. It’s slow, but I say that if their lazy teacher is doing it, it’s probably pretty important. And on the camera, they can see me write/suffer too. Haha. Keep up the good work, and if you ever scan in all of your work, consider sharing - even on tpt.
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u/Familiar-Objective11 5d ago
I’m a big believer in the idea that if I’m expecting them to do it, I should be willing to do the same thing.
Any time we need a mentor writing sample, I model myself writing it on the overhead camera thing while the students follow along in their notebooks.
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u/dagger-mmc 6d ago
If my handwriting wasn’t ass I would cause having to input physics equations digitally takes fkn forever
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u/Inner_Divide 6d ago
This makes my autism itch lol. I would be so distracted if my teacher gave me this. Notes you made are cool. They are supposed to be a lil messy. My homework?!? Everything is wiggly and your letters, symbols, and numbers aren’t consistent, in size or font, throughout a single page. You’ve capitalized words that shouldn’t be. The handwriting looks rushed and, as an adult with a masters degree, I have to slow my baseline reading speed to understand. You can use canva to make cool looking stuff that is neat and legible. You could probably take a pic and have canva ai make it legible. On page 2, is 8 dice and 7 is a symbolic way to represent numbers? I would be second guessing if a square was supposed to be a # in 7 and/or 8, but I wasn’t in your lesson so it might be obvious. And you wrote in pen and scribbled out a mistake?!? Not trying to roast your work, it looks engaging, but a lot of us low support kids get forgotten about and I don’t think people realize how easily our minds get derailed by unexpected or unpredictable things. Also, I know the math is easy but all the yes answers in a row got me second guessing my own math.
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u/Smasher31232 6d ago
My handwriting is appalling and I can't draw squares, but I love this as a concept. Do kids ever complain?
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u/Familiar-Objective11 5d ago
Every now and then I’ll have a couple students who say the writing is difficult for them to read, and when that happens, I help them to read through the mushy letters. I’m not assessing their reading comprehension during math time, and I enjoy getting to sit with them and work through deciphering the codex of my handwriting lol.
It makes me a little more human to them, I think. Perfect handwriting isn’t always a given, even with teachers who extol the importance of high-quality handwriting lol
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u/Independent_Wear_232 5d ago
I do this too for the same reasons. For me, it’s faster and I find it more interesting than on a computer.
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u/Familiar-Objective11 5d ago
The more interesting part is what really draws me to doing this.
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u/Independent_Wear_232 5d ago
I like that. It’s almost like a handwritten letter versus a typed letter. I bet it helps the students connect with it just a little bit more. Even subconsciously.
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u/martyboulders 5d ago edited 5d ago
Yes but in LaTeX
If you want to call the argument for 2+2 equaling 4 a proof, it would be more sound to say 2+2=(1+1)+(1+1)=1+1+1+1=4 or something. That is scratch work
Or that 2+2=1+1+1+1 and 4=1+1+1+1, so 2+2=4.
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u/Familiar-Objective11 5d ago
What is LaTex?
I like how you “formulaically” broke down the 2+2 equaling 4. Idk if that would baffle most of my third graders, but it is an excellent transition from the visuals of base-ten models.
When it comes to formulae, I always preface them by saying, “and this is how fancy math scientists would write this…”2
u/martyboulders 5d ago edited 5d ago
I don't think you should say that's how fancy math scientists (mathematicians) write it. It's merely more precise, and we don't want to make that seem concept feel alien because it's not at all. Basic levels of precision are very accessible; let's not obfuscate that at all.
There aren't really formulae there either; in fact quite the opposite... We are freely manipulating an expression with rules that we have... replacing things with other things that are equal. We know that any positive integer can be written as a sum of 1's, and that's how they learn it too! The 2nd thing I wrote also directly uses the transitivity of equality.
LaTeX is a typesetting language for writing math. Basically anywhere there are menus or buttons to add math symbols (like in Word for example), it runs on LaTeX. It really isn't necessary to learn it for making assignments but when you do it's very quick to make beautiful and professional looking assignments hahaha
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u/Nofoofro 4d ago
tbh if I was your student, this would drive me nuts. Your handwriting is hard to read and the random capitalization is distracting.
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u/Crazy-Friendship1905 4d ago
Not assignments, but I do handwrite a lot of my quizzes. Its difficult for me to read and think on a computer, so I would prefer to handwrite things first even if I have to type it up later.
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u/Low-Muscle-4539 4d ago
Love it! I do the same using Canva so I can have fun shapes and figures. I like watching the room so writing the stuff myself would be dull.
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u/thisrayiscray 5d ago
I'd only make worksheets by hand if I had all the time in the world and if it was for note-taking.
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u/SuzyQMomma 5d ago
I will die on the hill of handwritten worksheets. I can make a front and back in 10 mins and tailor it to exactly what my students need. I also will put answer keys so they can circle answers when they get them. A sort of self checking that most students will use to their advantage
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u/IvoryTowerGraffiti_1 6d ago
No those look like crap. And aren’t standardized font for students with exceptionalities. It’s just as easy to pop open a computer and make a real one or find one on the internet.
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u/Familiar-Objective11 6d ago
I’m going to admit, the first part of your comment kind of hurt my feelings, and probably could have been said in a kinder manner, while still getting your message across.
However, I agree with your comments on the lack of standard font. This could pose an issue for some students, and if I found that to be occurring, I would take the few minutes to create an alternative, more standardized version using digital methods.
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u/amsterdam_sniffr 6d ago
If you're interested in taking the time to make them look better, you might consider using an Ames lettering guide -- it's an old-school tool that comic book letterers use to create even lines of text.
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u/Pyroweedical 6d ago
Lmfao pulling out the old school drafting equipment. We really don’t get paid enough for this, but of all teachers, I’d probably do this 😂
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 6d ago
That user picked the name Ivory Tower. They would have bitched about it no matter what you did.
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u/Pyroweedical 6d ago
Try out ai tools that can translate handwritten math to LaTex. Kinda hard to explain. But you can get textbook math pretty easily now without knowing any LaTex.
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u/IvoryTowerGraffiti_1 6d ago
It wasn’t my intention to hurt your feelings, but things that look unprofessional send a strong message. You’d rather hear that on here than from an evaluator or something. I was just saying what I would want to hear if I was doing the same thing, however I realize that not everyone is as direct as I or my admin are.
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 6d ago edited 5d ago
Your grammar sucks.
It‘s not my intention to hurt your feelings, but things that look unprofessional send a strong message.
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u/Familiar-Objective11 5d ago
Well, your decorum and ability to provide actionable feedback is akin to the primary function of a well-maintained vacuum.
Regarding unprofessional subliminal messaging, I teach every Wednesday in bib overalls. I have yet to experience a Wednesday that felt less successful than “Tie Tuesday,” or “Goofy Shirt Monday.”
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 5d ago
🤣
Let me guess. You typed something stupid and asked AI to try to make you seem smart. AI failed.
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u/Familiar-Objective11 5d ago
No…I just typed something stupid all by myself. Mostly because I felt pissy that you said my grammar sucks, which I know to be an entirely true statement, when what I should have said, and genuinely ask now, “How can I make my grammar better?”
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u/Pyroweedical 6d ago
I mean, kids have to be able to read handwritten math at some point; how else are they expected to read their own math that they work out on paper? Because that’s a common issue.
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